Applications of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Sector


Toğa G.

12th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications (Europe) (ICIEA-EU 2025), Munich, Almanya, 7 - 09 Ocak 2025, (Yayınlanmadı)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Yayınlanmadı
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Munich
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Almanya
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Applications of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Sector

Gülhan Toğa1

1Erciyes University, Engineering Faculty, Industrial Engineering Department, Kayseri, Türkiye

gpala@erciyes.edu.tr

 

Abstract: The emergence of big data has significantly expanded the information accessible from this data. The extensive application of machine learning, particularly deep learning, has enabled the derivation of meaningful insights from big data sets. Nonetheless, end users encounter several deficiencies in the developed models, including transparency, interpretability, and reliability. In domains where decision-making processes are essential, such as banking, healthcare, and autonomous systems, these shortcomings pose significant problems. "Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)," which is created to overcome these limitations, offers a systematic way to help people comprehend the model and its judgments as well as how to evaluate the models' consistency. This study provides a most recent literature review on the use and benefits of XAI in the healthcare. An example of application in healthcare is also provided in the study, which predicts the results of interventional operations on patients with breast cancer. The survival and mortality outcomes of breast cancer patients after surgery are modeled using with the Random Forest Classifier and Gradient Boosting Classifier, and these models are explained using one of the XAI techniques, Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME). LIME is a technique used to understand the predictions of machine learning models. It provides interpretable and locally faithful explanations by approximating the model locally with a simpler, interpretable model. According to the findings, applying XAI aids in gaining a deeper comprehension of the motivation behind the model's decision-making.

 

Keywords: Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Gradient Boosting Classifier, Random Forest Classifier, LIME